Week 8 - Nov 1, 3, 5 - Musics of the world in the World Music market

• Mon: Lecture (case study: Central African Republic)

• Wed: Film screening: Buena Vista Social Club, by Wim Wenders.

• Fri: Lecture (case studies: Cuba, Syria)

Readings:

Assigned reading:

Feld, Steven. “Pygmy POP: A genealogy of schizophonic mimesis.” Yearbook for Traditional Music, 28, 1996, pp. 1-35.

Additional reading:

Shannon, Jonathan H. “Sultans of Spin. Syrian Sacred Music on the World Stage.” In Post, Jennifer C. (ed.) Ethnomusicology. A Contemporary Reader. New York: Routledge, 2006, pp. 17-32.

Links for this week:

Herbie Hancock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5GcYeh7XA

Madonna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEI5AxPE2QA

Zap Mama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6onXt2bwDY

Deep Forest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SqtowWSVlc

For ethnographic recordings of Central African Pygmy music, search the library catalogue under Arom, Simha (Author) or Colin Turnbull (Author).

http://www.alkindi.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSrdFo-vNDY

http://www.fesfestival.com/en07/index.htm

Further reading (film reading):

Perna, Vincenzo. “Marketing nostalgia: the rise of Buena Vista Social Club” in Vincenzo Perna, Timba: the sound of the Cuban crisis, Aldershot & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Bibliography (Music 102 2010)

Powerpoint presentation for this week